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Show ,,v'-' I . A Great Men at Forty Some Examples from the Paes of Ilistorv. v . 1. I j TK f ;i t . re c o r. 1 1 y pointed o u t, t h m old men have been ih a lending figures in tho bis wnr makes Interesting a glance at the pages of history. General '.rant v as strongly op-prtM'il op-prtM'il to ar,y man coin mand i n g in tlx- li.-ld a.t.-r fifty. Servius Tullius. u ho enenvled Home and her seven lulis wlili : wall. ?ui erannuatod Ills wn it I us. aeeording to Montaigne, nt toriy-soven Augustus dismissed i lu ni at ! ort y -ii vo, C. real Britain does net appoint them to supreme iiMtunnnd until they aro approchin sit y. Sir J oh n French Is si x t y -1 h ree. Si ! 1 an Ha mil ion. .lust home from the Pard'i:, dies, will bo lxty-thre In January. 11 is successor. Sir Chai Irs Mourn. Is titty-live. Admiral Ad-miral .leHicoe Is tH'ty-stx. ir Percy Seott is sixty-two. Lord Kttehoner hlmsrif is slxt v-fivo. All ontorod the service early, rs did iiiojU of their pte.it predecessors, hut their predecessors won fame earlir-r l life. Hod ne y and Hood entered the navy ml thirteen and seventeen re-.'rcri re-.'rcri i vel y, while Nelson joined hi fiaip at twelve, and was lieutenant at nineteen. Wellington entered th army at eighteen; Napoleon, his (:ro,it antagonist, horn in tha samo year, was nlrendy nn officer of artillery ar-tillery t wo yea i s earlier. Hod ney, f r r exam pie, was niado Cov.'i ai.tr of New i on in! laiul ;u t wen I - nine, and was a Hear-Ad-m I ra I ele en y ea rs later. Nrlson w .i h but t lilrt y -n I tie w hen he de (rated the Spaniards at 1 i pe St. N'tnernt. fo. ty w hen lie won Abou-Uir Abou-Uir li;iv and fort y -seven when h mi r.lo.-tniMly died. Uoth Wel'iinion nut) Napoleon nr o ii I Ii i n 1 gtautn. The In t trr had fa ised h un.se 1 f to K'npei or at ll f -a ml -t li i i I . As for the victor of Waterloo, w bo whs then but 1 1 r i -six. ho had dona the Hon' I'iKih' in the, overthrow of Tlppon ;:.i1mI when i Mil , nnd won his m;i ,'M'-f euei n when t hlM '-three, '-three, Sir Francin PiaUe was only forty-eight when he and the favoring favor-ing winds put the Armada to flight. Turning to civil life the same phenomenon confronts us. Pop Innocent III. was thtrty-seven when he became supreme ruler In Christendom. Chris-tendom. Ignatius Loyola and John Wesley worked with youns? brains. Tho former was but thirty Vhen he wrote his famous "Spirl tual Exercises." Exer-cises." Ulaise Pascal, at sixteen, gave the world his treatise on conic sections that dated a new de- parture In their treatment. Grotius was practising law at seventeen, and was Attorney-General at twenty-four. What younsr slants trod the political politi-cal stage in the eighteenth century. Hot h Holinpbroke and Pitt wera Ministers of the Crown before rrost men leave cricket, the one at twenty-six. the other Chancellor of tha Kxeheqner at twenty-three, and, at twanty-ftve. one of the moat powerful power-ful Ministers Lin stand has ever had. That youth, not ape, la tha -time for achievement is clear from tha fact that death seems to have been unusually bu;y am cup: re-u men who have attained to fifty. At fifty-one fifty-one died Tasso, Sir Humphrey l.ivy, favour and Madam de Stael ; t lift y -1 wo. Na pole on, ShaK .'speara. Sue. Gordon. Hazlitt. T ess ins?, Alex-Mi-der the Groat; at fifty-four, les-carics, les-carics, Drake, Marryat. bante. Tope, oullus Caesar an,i Pananini all died at (Hty-slx. At rlfty-sov.n the Viea per cut dow n H e 1 n Can nlnff. Hl.u-Ur-tone. Fox and V.iihru-:h; at "fty-cUht fell Oickens. Defoe. Andrew An-drew Marvel and Ktchard Steele Oliver Cromwell and Lord Macau-lay Macau-lay were still in tha flt'tlea whan they died. Nor must It be forgotten that middle Ufa la morally more perilous peril-ous than yout h. Or eat as are tha temptations of yenni manhood, tha peril that lie In wait for us in tha midst of thp vert i are deadlier. More men k' wron:; hot n run fortv and lHt than In early mainiood. oxen aw more ships founder upon the hlh en than o down when .Rlllna out of port. |